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TREMELLINACE^ 



Tremella 



2024. T. elavata Pers. (from its somewhat clavate shape) a. 

 Incrassate, fleshy-red, becoming black at base. 

 Solitary, simple or connate. Branches. Average size of single growth 



f X in. Possibly a form of T. sarcoides With., and, if so, a condition of 



Ombrophila sarcoides Jacq., one of the Discomycetes. 

 [T. sarcoides With, is an early condition of Ombrophila scarcoides Jacq. 



T.foliicola Fuck, is not a Tremella; it forms small gelatinous tufts or 



spots on the leaves of Rubus fruticosus in company with Phragmidium. 



T. brassic&cola B. & Br. is probably a form of Hypocrea rttfa Fr. ; it 



grows on and in cabbage stumps.] 



CII. N^MATELIA Fr. 



(From the gelatinous substance which surrounds the nucleus; 

 Gr. naima, gelatine, eileo, to roll or wrap round.) 



Subgelatinous, firm, convex, with a firm fleshy central solid 

 portion called the nucleus, not shrivelling when dry. Basidia 

 subglobose, longitudinally quadripartite. Spores broadly elliptical,, 

 continuous. (Fig. 117.) 



Fig. 117. A, B, Namatelia encepJiala Fr., entire and in section. 

 One-half natural size, c, basidium with surface view, b, and spores ; 

 D, spore germinating and producing sporidiola. X 500. 



Readily distinguished by the presence of the central solid 

 nucleus, which is composed of interwoven hyphae and covered with 

 a thick gelatinous spore-bearing stratum. Growing on wood, 

 sometimes on moss, rarely terrestrial. Species 2025 2028 



2025. N. eneephala Fr. (from the contained nucleus; Gr.]^, 



within, kephale, the head) a b c. 

 Somewhat sessile, pulvinate, plicato-rugose, pallid flesh-colour, 



salmon or salmon-whitish, nucleus hard, large, white. 

 Solitary to connate. Branches, rails, pine, larch ; frequent. Sept.-Mar. 

 I in. Connate for 4 in. 



